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The Foxestalk vs Mark Lawrenson thread

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Apologies for not posting lawros scores, long and short of it is the forum currently has 20 points on Lawro going into the final game. Which I should imagine requires a 2-1 Everton win to give him any chance

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Guardian post match article has this brilliant comment

'Mark Lawrenson has not predicited a single Liverpool loss this season. What an absolutely colossal cock-knocker that man is.

Plus, he had the temerity to 'predict' a Spurs loss at Norwich.

Suck it Lawrenson. With your stupid 'joy of sex' haircut.'

lol

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Lawrenson having Norwich to beat Spurs sums up the credibility behind his predictions. It's just a completely logic defying load of nonsense.

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Has anyone noticed that he always goes on about why a team can't win or why their opposition can but then backs the other team! Look at his explanation for liverpools win lol

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"Claudio Ranieri's side are not always going to outplay teams, but they have the ability to stay in games and then nick the winner."

Erm what? Like we outplayed Liverpool? People still associating possession with dominance.

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Lawro says 2-1 Man City

 

lol

 

He's also gone Villa 0-2 Norwich.

That is pure nonsense, Villa will win that one, been playing well and Norwich are hopeless defensively.

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"Claudio Ranieri's side are not always going to outplay teams, but they have the ability to stay in games and then nick the winner."

Depends on your definition of "outplaying". Seems to me that Leicester have a specific policy when they've lost the ball and can't sensibly press for a quick recovery. They lay off in their basic defensive shape and probe for a mistake without risking any kind of real challenge until there's a specific chance of getting the ball.

This may take any number of opposition passes which show no particular ambition to challenge or intercept. We just shadow the play however long it takes until the opposition makes a mistake of any kind and then we're on it in a flash. Consequently we may have conceded 30 passes of possession but that's not the opposition exerting pressure it'sour own pre-conceived policy and a very good one.

Indeed it is often the case that the more passes the opposition make across the field from one side to the other and back again the more impatient they get and the more they're tempted to press forward indiscreetly, leaving bigger gaps for our fast breaking attackers to exploit.

That someone like Lawrenson fails to see this is testimony to a man who will never make a manager or coach but who finds himself fortunate enough to take the job of a journalist which he doesn't deserve. Because a man has played professional football doesn't necessarily make him any more of an expert, analytically, than anyone else. As is demonstrated when so many players fail so miserably as managers.

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Lawro says 2-1 Man City

 

lol

 

He's also gone Villa 0-2 Norwich.

That is pure nonsense, Villa will win that one, been playing well and Norwich are hopeless defensively.

 

All over Norwich in that one myself

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"Claudio Ranieri's side are not always going to outplay teams, but they have the ability to stay in games and then nick the winner."

Erm what? Like we outplayed Liverpool? People still associating possession with dominance.

remember. liverpool are invicible in his brain! 

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I must admit, I really enjoy looking at the league table which the BBC helpfully supply, based on all Lawro's predictions this season.

 

In Lawro World, after ''Round 25'' of the Premier League fixtures, Liverpool have maintained their superb 25 match unbeaten start to the season and are chasing down Chelsea for 3rd position. They just need to turn a couple of those draws into wins to be right in the mix at the top.

 

Newcastle, another of Lawro's former clubs, are having an encouraging first season under Steve Maclaren and are sitting comfortably in mid table.

 

Meanwhile, at the wrong end of the table, the battle is on between Leicester and West Ham to avoid that dreaded 18th place. But yet another resounding defeat, Leicester's 13th of the season, this time against Manchester City, has increased the pressure on beleaguered Foxes boss Claudio Ranieri and confirmed what the BBC pundits said all along about the unwisdom and backwardness of his appointment in the summer.

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